Air-Stream-CLG

Air-Stream-CLG is located in Adelaide’s southern suburbs at Colonel Light Gardens.

The new site has been established by Damien (know as Drift) one of Air-Stream Wireless youngest members and his setup is an excellent example of ingenuity and how coverage of the network can be extended on a very modest budget.

Don’t be mislead by its modest construction as it is a fully routed node with usual AS BGP router configuration using a Mitsubishi R100 which has been re-flashed with OpenWRT to allow fully routed user connections via its AP into the wider network.

The site is backboned to Air-Stream-Pasadena, with a not to shabby backhaul of 700KB/s using a modified Pacmon grid dish antenna that reports a signal gain of around -76dBm.

The AP utilises a low cost Minitar AP which feeds a homebrew collinear antenna ~8db built by Drift and has already shown to offer good coverage in and around the area.

The weatherproof enclosure is a biscuit tin! and has been coated with several layers of white epoxy paint to prevent rust. The whole setup is powered up the mast from a surplus AT PSU on the ground, which injects a dual rail supply into a three core flexible cable (a cheap extension lead) some 10 metres away.